The Maxwell hard fork of BNB Smart Chain has three main proposals aimed at enhancing scalability, validator synchronization, and overall network efficiency. The most significant change being that average block times dropped to 0.8 seconds, down from the previous 1.5.

BNB Chain stated that the Maxwell upgrade will make transactions faster for users, create more responsive decentralized applications for developers, reduce latency for decentralized finance, and improve scalability, validator synchronization, and overall network efficiency.